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In This Chapter 4 people 6 places 33 terms

People

Jacob (Patriarch) 2 Amos (Prophet) Israel Jeshurun (Israel)

Places

    Key Terms

    Sabbath 5 Swear 5 New Moon Festival 4 Deceit (Act) 2 Lamentation 2 Word of the Lord 2 Guiltiness 2 Sabbath (Day of Week) Sabbath Rest Deceit (Deception) Deceive Deceit (Betrayal) Laziness Deceit (Covert) To Sin Sin Guilt (State) Transgression Sin (Act) Sin (Incur Guilt) Guilty (Responsible) Guilt (Consequence) Trespass (Sin) Sinful Sin (Offense) To Stand Guilty Sin (Guilty) Sin (Wrongdoing) Guilty Considered Guilty Guilty Of Sin Previously Sin Against

    The Basket of Summer Fruit

    1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.†

    2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

    3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs† of the temple† will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

    ⓘ This section expands the indictments and judgments listed...

    This section expands the indictments and judgments listed earlier (read with 2:6–6:14).
    4Hear this, you who trample the needy,who do away with the poor of the land,5asking, “When will the New Moon be over,that we may sell grain?When will the Sabbath end,that we may market wheat?Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel;†let us cheat with dishonest scales.6Let us buy the poor with silverand the needy for a pair of sandals,selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

    7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:

    “I will never forget any of their deeds.
    8Will not the land quake for this,and all its dwellers mourn?All of it will swell like the Nile;it will surge and then subsidelike the Nile in Egypt.
    9And in that day,declares the Lord GOD,I will make the sun go down at noon,and I will darken the earth in the daytime.10I will turn your feasts into mourningand all your songs into lamentation.I will cause everyone to wear sackclothand every head to be shaved.I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,and its outcome like a bitter day.
    ⓘ famine... of hearing the words of the Lord:...

    famine . . . of hearing the words of the Lord: God sent prophets to Israel to speak his words directly to them, but Israel commanded the prophets not to prophesy (2:11–12). Now they had what they wanted, but it was a silence more terrible than his roar and thunder: God became distant (see Ezek 7:26; 20:3; Mic 3:4, 7). The time for speaking was over; the time of judgment had come.
    11Behold, the days are coming,declares the Lord GOD,when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.12People will stagger from sea to seaand roam from north to east,seeking the word of the LORD,but they will not find it.13In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.14Those who swear by the guilt of Samariaand say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’or, ‘As surely as the way† of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”